diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1525e7fc..fc55c5ef 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
     "prebuildfrontend": "node src/prebuild.cjs",
     "buildfrontendtest": "ng test --watch=false && ng build",
     "buildfrontend": "ng build --configuration production",
-    "buildbackend": "tsc --project tsconfig.json",
-    "watchbackend": "tsc --project tsconfig.json --watch",
+    "buildbackend": "tsc --project ./server/tsconfig.server.json",
+    "watchbackend": "tsc --project ./server/tsconfig.server.json --watch",
     "server": "set NODE_ENV=development&&nodemon --watch backend --watch server ./rtl.js",
     "serverUbuntu": "NODE_ENV=development nodemon --watch backend --watch server ./rtl.js",
     "testdev": "ng test --watch=true --code-coverage",
diff --git a/server/tsconfig.server.json b/server/tsconfig.server.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9dd86afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/tsconfig.server.json
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{
+    "compileOnSave": false,
+    "compilerOptions": {
+      "baseUrl": "../",
+      "outDir": "../backend",
+      "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+      "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
+      "strict": false,
+      "noImplicitOverride": false,
+      "noPropertyAccessFromIndexSignature": false,
+      "strictPropertyInitialization":false,
+      "strictNullChecks": false,
+      "noImplicitAny": false,
+      "noImplicitReturns": true,
+      "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
+      "sourceMap": false,
+      "declaration": false,
+      "downlevelIteration": true,
+      "moduleResolution": "node",
+      "importHelpers": true,
+      "target": "ES2022",
+      "module": "ES2022",
+      "useDefineForClassFields": false,
+      "lib": [
+        "ES2022"
+      ],
+      "paths": {
+        "crypto": ["node_modules/crypto-browserify"],
+        "stream": ["node_modules/stream-browserify"]
+      }
+    },
+    "include": [
+      "./**/*"
+    ]
+  }
+  
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 64c815c3..6af8d4ce 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
     }
   },
   "include": [
-    "./server/**/*"
+    "./server/**/*",
+    "./src/**/*"
   ],
   "angularCompilerOptions": {
     "enableI18nLegacyMessageIdFormat": false,